Wits end

Help! She only fell asleep at 5am (accept for brief stretches being held -- but she would wake up and want to play). The rest if the time it was either her jumping in her bed alternating between screaming "scared" and "water" or giggling and wanting to play/dance, asking for stories, stealing my nose and blowing raspberries. I feel as if I am losing my mind. She is still sleeping now should I wake her up so that her naps and bedtime aren't thrown out? Or let her sleep?

She kept saying she was scared of her bed (crib). so i don't know if I should go get a big girl bed now?

She was up on Thursday morning between 1-5 with the same story but she slept like a champ Thursday night. She is usually a good sleeper

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Bumping for you. What do you do when she wants to play at night? We always put LO back down and sing the same song and never let her get up to play because she'd only want to do that. We made that mistake once and it took three nights to get back to normal.

Also right now there's a lot of rough nights due to teeth - two year molars coming in =(

Since this kind of screaming is a new thing we have been going in to calm her down. We try sing her bedtime song or recite books we know by heart, we try rocking her, lying on the floor with her. even doing her whole bedtime routine again. We try to keep her calm and in her room but she just argues and entertains herself , she has managed to wriggle away and make a bolt for it to the living room where we often dance (during the day). She also can climb out of her crib (safely- like a little gymnast) so she gets out that way too if we are not in the room. Up until now though she has been very good about not doing it and waiting for mommy but the last few bad nights she has done it. Last night she managed to negotiate my husband's pillow away from him, when he was lying on the floor with her, and that seems to be keeping her happy. She already had a lovey but maybe she just wants daddy?

I have ordered a toddler bed now so I fully expect that the next few nights are going to be a big adjustment.